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Beagle 2 : Europe's Mars Lander

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Title Beagle 2 : Europe's Mars Lander

Released: 27/11/2003

Length 00:07:50

Language English

Footage Type Documentary

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ESA

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Since the 2nd of June 2003, one of ESA&Iacute;s most challenging missions has been travelling to the red Planet Mars. The Mars Express spacecraft was built and launched in record time and at a lower cost than previous, similar missions into outer space. The project started in 1997, the arrival is planned for Christmas this year. A payload of seven scientific instruments constitute the heart of the Mars Express orbiter that will fly around the planet.

Mars Express-BEAGLE 2
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Since the 2nd of June 2003, one of ESA&Otilde;s most challenging missions has been travelling to the red Planet Mars. The Mars Express spacecraft was built and launched in record time and at a lower cost than previous, similar missions into outer space. The project started in 1997, the arrival is planned for Christmas this year. A payload of seven scientific instruments constitute the heart of the Mars Express orbiter that will fly around the planet. During two years, it will make a series of remote sensing experiments designed to shed new light on a planet that shares many similarities with the Earth.
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Most instruments onboard Mars Express were adapted from another ESA mission called Rosetta. Just one had to be built up from scratch: A lander called Beagle 2 after the ship in which Charles Darwin set sail to explore unknown areas of the Earth in 1831.
01:37This lander was developed here at the Open University in Milton Keynes, not far from London. A group of scientis